While the presidential election, nationally, remains a virtually tied contest, likely voters of all political stripes have blessed President Barack Obama’s response to the storm that lashed the Northeast this week. The ABC News/Washington Post daily tracking, for several days...

Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock gestures during a news conference in Indianapolis, on Oct. 24, 2012, to explain the comment he made during last night Senate debate. Mourdock said that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape, "that's something God intended."

Barack Obama wants Colorado voters to remember a certain Indiana Senate candidate when they pick a president next week. An Obama radio ad in Denver spins through the Richard Mourdock rape comment controversy, using newscasts and a conversation between a...

Defense is the last position a politician should be in during the final days of a campaign, Bloomberg’s Al Hunt says in today’s “In the Hunt.” When former President Bill Clinton campaigns for President Barack Obama in Minnesota and Republican...

Anyone seeing more TV ads or getting more campaign literature in the mail than ever isn’t imagining it. Spending on the 2012 presidential and congressional races will exceed $6 billion, according to an estimate released today by the Center for...

Vote the person, not the party. That’s the closing argument from Scott Brown, the Republican senator seeking re-election in strongly Democratic Massachusetts. “I’ve kept my promise to be an independent voice. I’ve put people ahead of politics, and now I...

Ohio is close, according to The Ohio Poll. The survey run by the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Cincinnati has a strong track record. Its final snapshot of the race between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt...

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who won election despite a business record including a company engaged in Medicare fraud, is not the most popular politician. The super-PAC backing President Barack Obama is counting on both that and the Medicare voucher plan...

Superstorm Sandy “tended to freeze” the presidential race while Americans focused on the storm, President Barack Obama’s strategist David Axelrod said on a conference call with reporters today. Axelrod, saying he was reluctant to discuss the political impact of an...

With former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio behind him, Republican Mitt Romney revved up his Atlantic storm-stalled campaign in Florida today. “This is quite a time for the country, as you know — we’re going through trauma in...

With polls showing a virtual tie between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, two former lawmakers, now colleagues at the lawyer-lobbying firm K&L Gates LLP, offered their own political predictions at a briefing for reporters today. Former Rep....